Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gets nominated for a Grammy

Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie could be earning herself an unexpected accolade this weekend at The Grammys, where she’s nominated for ‘Album of The Year’ as part of Beyoncé’s self-titled LP.

The credit, of course, comes from “Flawless”, the Beyoncé single which uses a lengthy sample of Adichie’s ‘We Should All Be Feminists’ TEDxEuston speech, in which the writer urges audiences to dismiss the notion of feminism being inherently “un-African.”
As Beyoncé explains in the video below, “I was scrolling through videos about feminism on youtube and I ran across this video of this incredible Nigerian author, Chimamanda Adichie. Everything she said is exactly how I feel. ‘We raise girls to see each other as competitors. Not for jobs or for accomplishments, which I think can be a good thing, but for the attention of men.’”

The Grammy news comes a few days after Adichie penned ‘Lights Out in Nigeria,’ a New York Times op-ed on the quality of electricity in Nigeria, and had a personal piece about her struggles with depression published without permission by The Guardian.